Youtube is slow

We have ATT Uverse, 12/1.5 package, and all speed tests are showing up at 11.5/1.2, both on wired and wireless. However, anytime we go to YouTube, it is incredibly slow. I have tried changing the Wireless Channel in the Uverse Gateway, but haven't noticed much of a difference on any channel. I also changed the DNS in our TCP/IP settings and am now using OpenDNS, and I also updated Flash Player and Java, and no improvement. I am wondering, is there anything else I can do? Every video pauses every 5 seconds to buffer, even at 360p. Thanks--No Victim=No Crime

I visit multiple forums including small net builder, Asus, linksys, and other networking sites and see fairly common buffering complaints increasing. Many of the complainants have low latency high bandwidth connections. There seems to be no common denominator between them. Personally I use opendns and have a 75/5 twc connection that performs flawlessly on everything except for streaming HD videos from YouTube.

I could be wrong, but it sure does seem if you watch some of YouTube's big money makers/partners they load fine in 1080 but watch joe blow's video in 1080 and your gonna be buffering a lot.I've noticed this for quite some time now. And its getting worse it seems.--Long you live and high you fly, and smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry,and all you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be.

Just shows that the peering point into the AT&T network is overloaded, Google won't pony up the dollars for more capacity, AT&T could careless, there a teir 1 provider, they never pay for bandwidth, as the ARE the internet ( same as Verizon )

I also changed the DNS in our TCP/IP settings and am now using OpenDNS

That may be the source of your problem. Using a public DNS server breaks the geolocation functionality used by major content delivery networks that serve bandwidth-intensive content like videos. This can result in the data being served from a POP a great distance from your location and therefore sluggish performance. Try changing back to your ISPs DNS servers temporarily and see if it makes a difference.

Re: Youtube is slow

Sorry if this was posted before. I did a quick search and didn't see anything, but anyways...

Turns out that there's some bandwidth throttling that TWC does to cache servers that host video content for web services (YouTube, Netflix, twitch.tv, etc.).

To get around this, you can block the following IP ranges (Windows Firewall, ipfw in Linux):

173.194.55.0/24

206.111.0.0/16

By blocking these addresses, the videos will be served to you directly instead of being throttled by the ISP. You can read more info about it here. It should have some more detailed information and links to some videos and tutorials for Windows, OSX, and Linux.

I just did this in Windows 8, and I went from barely being able to watch Merlini on 360p, to watching him without skipping at 1200p+. Hope it helps!

Sorry if this was posted before. I did a quick search and didn't see anything, but anyways...

Turns out that there's some bandwidth throttling that TWC does to cache servers that host video content for web services (YouTube, Netflix, twitch.tv, etc.).

To get around this, you can block the following IP ranges (Windows Firewall, ipfw in Linux):

173.194.55.0/24

206.111.0.0/16

By blocking these addresses, the videos will be served to you directly instead of being throttled by the ISP. You can read more info about it here. It should have some more detailed information and links to some videos and tutorials for Windows, OSX, and Linux.

I just did this in Windows 8, and I went from barely being able to watch Merlini on 360p, to watching him without skipping at 1200p+. Hope it helps!

I thank you so very much for telling me about this. I did this, and can now watch YouTube in 720p and 1080p HD without buffering. Kudos to you.--No Victim=No Crime

Thanks to the post below,and a thread it led to, and looking through the comments it appears you can see the test video information by right clicking on the youtube video and choosing "show video info" on the my_speed page.

edit: I take it back... it only ever shows 0kbps as the speed... oh well worth checking.